Dr. Frances Morrison
Calm, practical therapy for family concerns
- Credentials
- IL Psychologist 071.010035
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Frances
Dr. Frances Morrison helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and parenting challenges. She is an Illinois psychologist with five years of practice experience and works with individual clients around mood, behavior, and life transitions.
Her approach is straightforward and flexible. She uses evidence-based methods like cognitive behavioral strategies and skills training to reduce intense emotions. She also draws on acceptance-based and attachment-focused ideas to help people notice what matters, repair bonds, and set healthier boundaries.
Background and approach
In sessions she listens closely and adapts techniques to each person’s situation. That can mean learning concrete skills for handling panic, practicing new ways to talk with a family member, or focusing on values to guide big decisions. Sessions aim to be practical and grounded in everyday life.
Dr. Morrison has worked with concerns related to ADHD, addictions, grief, eating and sleeping difficulties, anger, self-esteem, and coping with major life changes. She also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care issues, abandonment, blended family challenges, body image, and caregiver stress.
Her training as an IL Psychologist 071.010035 informs clinical judgment and treatment planning. She describes her style as empathic and flexible, combining structured techniques with attention to relationships and attachment. People who are looking for clear tools and steady support may find her approach helpful.
How therapy approaches fit into online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice their thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood, and decisions around parenting or life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and skill practice. CBT is often chosen for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating difficulties. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how relationships shape feelings and behavior and can help with family conflict, bonding after adoption or foster care, and repair of strained connections.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to weigh needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. Progress is monitored and adjustments are made together when something does not feel helpful.
Please confirm current session options before booking, as formats were not specified in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into busy routines, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also lets people practice skills in the context of daily life and bring real examples from home or work into sessions.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Frances
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- Stop at any point